Marvine Studio
Emily Cich
Oboist Emily Cich was born and raised in Westchester County, New York, where she began her musical studies on the instrument in 2000, at the age of 11. She is currently a second year student at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. There she studies with Jane Marvine, solo English horn of the Baltimore Symphony, and is working toward a bachelor’s degree in oboe performance and music education.
From 2001 to 2007, Ms. Cich studied with Girard Mohen, a pupil of Albert Goltzer, former oboist of the New York Philharmonic. In addition, she has participated in master classes and lessons with Liang Wang of the New York Philharmonic and Elizabeth Camus of the Cleveland Orchestra.
Ms. Cich’s performance experience includes concerts as first oboist with the New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) All-State Symphonic Band, and as first oboist, solo chair with the NYSSMA Area All-State Symphonic Band of Westchester County. She has performed as a featured soloist with the Walter Panas High School Symphonic Band, and played in the pit orchestras for “Oklahoma!,” “A Chorus Line,” “Anything Goes” and “George M!” She was also a member of the Dolce Winds woodwind quintet from 2005 to 2007.
Currently, Ms. Cich is a member of the Peabody Wind Ensemble, and is active in chamber music at the conservatory. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and studying German.
Dang Phu Vinh
Dang Phu Vinh is an oboist from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He began the oboe at the age of thirteen. After 2 months of study, he won an audition to study at the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music under full scholarship. In his third year there, he was invited to join the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet and Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) in which he still performs. From 1999 – 2003, Phu Vinh was principal oboe of the Ho Chi Minh Conservatory Orchestra. He also joined the Conservatory Chamber Winds as principal oboe (2000–2003). He took part in many performance tours in Vietnam (from 1999 – 2003) with the HBSO and Ho Chi Minh Conservatory Chamber Winds. During his study at the conservatory, he gave some solo performances, notably a Mozart Adagio in G major K. 58 , which was conducted by Mr. Tran Vuong Thach (June 1st 2001), a deputy director of Ho Chi Minh City Service Culture and Information, with the Conservatory Strings Ensemble.
In 2003, the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Singapore) gave him an audition in Vietnam and his talent quickly caught their attention. He was soon awarded a full scholarship to study in Singapore and has been a member of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra and Chamber Winds. He also took part in many recitals at this conservatory.
2007 was full of achievements for Phu Vinh. As one of 103 outstanding students from 10 Asian countries, Dang Phu Vinh was selected as a performer in the Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO). In the same year, the Canton International Summer Music Academy (CISMA), which is known as the first professional summer music academy in China, also awarded him a scholarship for his excellence. Recently, The World Orchestra announced Phu Vinh as one of the best musicians that they accepted, and he had the chance to join several European tours for that coming year.
He is currently pursuing the Master of Music degree under full scholarship at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University (USA).
Kathryn Gorski
Kathryn Gorski is currently studying the oboe at the Peabody Institute with Jane Marvine. Prior to attending Peabody, Ms. Gorski studied under William Bennett at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and with Daniel Stolper at Interlochen Arts Academy. In addition, Ms. Gorski also attended Interlochen Arts Camp for three summers. While living in New York, Ms. Gorski played with the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and with the New York Area All State Orchestra. Also, she performed in the pit orchestras for “Les Miserables,” “Jekyll and Hyde,” and “Beauty and the Beast.”
Elizabeth Honeyman
Elizabeth Honeyman was born in New Port Beach, California, but has spent the last six years in Lake Wylie, South Carolina. She began playing oboe at the age of eleven, and at the age of twelve, she began studying with Hollis Ulaky, principal oboist of the Charlotte Symphony. She also studied with Terry Maskin, solo English horn of the Charlotte Symphony, and Kirk Godbey.
Ms. Honeyman was principal oboist of the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra for 4 years, the UNC Charlotte Youth Wind Ensemble 3 years, and the South Carolina All State Orchestra 2 years. In addition, she played in the Honor Band of America, was a South Carolina All State Band member 5 years, and was principal oboe of the Winthrop Band Clinic Symphonic Band three years.
At Clover High School she received the John Phillip Sousa Award and the Wingard Excellence in Music Scholarship. She was also awarded the Charlotte Youth Symphony Orchestra Luski-Goerlicki Scholarship and the Burtner Scholarship. In 2007, Ms. Honeyman won the Charlotte Youth Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition and was named "Outstanding Soloist" at the Boiling Springs Band Invitational.
Ms. Honeyman was the solo oboist for the 2006 and 2007 Opera Carolina productions of "Amahl and the Night Visitors". In addition, she has played for the Charlotte and Clover Chorales, and many of the Charlotte area churches as solo oboe and as a member of Vento Delfino, her woodwind quintet.
Ms. Honeyman is currently a first year student of Ms. Jane Marvine, solo English horn of the Baltimore Symphony, at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.
Ursula Sahagian Mills
Ursula Sahagian Mills began studying the oboe privately at age ten, starting lessons with Neil Boyer at Dartmouth College in the eighth grade. In her sophomore year of high school she became the oboist in the Scholarship Woodwind Quintet, an honors ensemble at the Concord Community Music School. She earned the highest score of all auditioned oboes in the 2005 New Hampshire All-State music festival, which made her eligible for the All-Eastern music festival. Ms. Mills was personally invited to join the Dartmouth College Wind Symphony as principal oboe, and was a featured member on both oboe and English horn for two years. She guest performed with the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra in their 2006 holiday concert. The following summer, Ms. Mills was the first of five soloists to perform in the Honors Recital at the University of New Hampshire summer music camp, which she attended under full scholarship. She won first prize in the All-American Music Festival Solo Competition, hosted by Universal Studios in April 2008. Ms. Mills is currently a scholarship student in her first year at the Peabody Conservatory. She plays co-principal oboe and English horn in the wind ensemble, and is in the studio of Jane Marvine. She is pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in music education and oboe performance.
Ms. Mills is also interested in many other areas of music. She has completed several arrangements of pieces which have been performed throughout New Hampshire.She earned the top score as a jazz vocalist in the New Hampshire Jazz All-State music festival twice, and she currently studies voice with Carol Cavey-Miles at Peabody. She student directed four groups at her high school, both choral and instrumental, earning the John Philip Sousa award for musical excellence. She has taken conducting lessons from Dr. Peter Martin, and plans to continue her conducting studies with Dr. Harlan Parker next year.
Allison L. Pickett
Allison L. Pickett hails from Fairfax, VA where she began playing the oboe at age 10. Private lessons with Carol Stephenson inspired her to pursue a career in music.
Ms. Pickett graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, OH with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Oboe Performance. Ms. Pickett continued her education at Oberlin College and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology. While at Oberlin, she had the unique opportunity and privilege to study privately with James Caldwell, Robert Walters, and Alex Klein.
During the summer months Ms. Pickett has attended various festivals which included the Eastern Music Festival, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and the Kennedy Center’s Summer Music Institute. Ms. Pickett also had teaching experience as an oboe counselor at the Performing Arts Institute at Wyoming Seminary where she taught reed lessons and coached chamber groups. Most recently, Ms. Pickett was a member of the 2008 season of the Ohio Light Opera.
Throughout her musical pursuits Ms. Pickett has participated in master classes with prominent oboists such as Liang Wang, Ray Still, and Alex Klein. Her talent and hard work has not gone unnoticed as Music Critic for the Cleveland based newspaper the Plain Dealer Don Rosenberg described Ms. Pickett’s solo work during an Oberlin Opera production as “an instrumental pleasure”.
Currently Ms. Pickett is in her first year of pursuing a Master of Music Degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD under the tutelage of Jane Marvine.
Lindsay Scattergood
Lindsay Scattergood is a third year double degree student, studying Anthropology with a French minor at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Oboe Performance with a minor in Voice at the Peabody Conservatory. Lindsay graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy in 2006, where she studied with Daniel Stolper. At Peabody, she has been a member of the Peabody Symphony Orchestra and was principal oboe and English horn with the Peabody Wind Ensemble, and can be heard on the 2008 PWE Naxos recording playing principal oboe. In December 2007, Lindsay played with the PSO for the CBS broadcasted Kennedy Center Honors, honoring Leon Fleischer.
Lindsay spent the spring of 2009 in Strasbourg France, at the Université de Syracuse and the Conservatoire National de Strasbourg, studying oboe with Sébastien Giot. While in Strasbourg, Lindsay performed with the Conservatory’s Orchestre Symphonique, guest conducted by Julia Jones. Lindsay has also participated in masterclasses with Alex Klein, Elaine Douvas, John Ferillo, Rebecca Henderson and Linda Strommen, and in Le Domaine Forget music festival and the Interlochen Advanced Oboe Institute. Her teachers include Jane Marvine, Daniel Stolper, Howard Niblock and Andrea Gross Hixon.
Lindsay has also worked in the arts management realm as a box office assist for the Peninsula Music Festival in Door County, WI and as an office and music library assistant with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. In addition to her musical studies, academics play a central role in Lindsay’s life. She has been on the Dean’s list at Johns Hopkins and Peabody since fall 2006 and was recently inducted into both the Golden Key Society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She regularly pursues research opportunities linking music, anthropology, and the social sciences and physiology.
